Yahoo Messenger gets Hindi Language Support

Yahoo announced updates to their Messenger application for Android and iOS platforms. The Android update intends on reaching more users in India with support for Hindi language. The iOS update however comes out with support for third-party keyboards.

Yahoo Messenger with the new update v1.1.0 for iOS and v2.1.0 for Android now supports non-English languages such as Hindi for android only in a first of a time along with support Chinese, French, German, Indonesian and Spanish languages also. The app also synchronizes along with matching users mobile contacts to easily search for their friends facilitating in accessing chats more easily. "Users just need to enable access to contacts in the Messenger app for the best experience," Yahoo said.

For Apple's iOs however, the Yahoo Messenger application now also supports third party keyboard applications starting on iOS 8 up to iOS 9.2 and later versions. Android users in latest update now can now can type "/gif" along with any search term to get a random gif images to send. The app had already permitted users to search for and send gif images. Gif image search in the app is actually now powered by Tumblr which Yahoo acquired in 2013. There is also an "un-send" feature which also works for all kinds of messages along text and media included. The updated app can be downloaded from Google Play and App Store.

Yahoo's last updates for iOs and Android platforms were seen in 2015 December along web platform letting users share any number photos within the app. Users apparently can also like images within the app itself. However the main feature primary were the ability to unsend a message. The company said it redesigned the app from the ground up across platforms, which introduces a cleaner, less cluttered look to the service.